Stephen Heilmann

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Stephen Heilmann (born August 17, 1941 in Nuuk ; † June 1, 2019 ) was a Greenlandic politician ( Siumut ) and journalist .

Life

Stephen Heilmann was the son of the accountant Peter Heilmann († 1982) and his wife Mariane Olsen. On August 7, 1982 he married Regine Dorph (* 1952), a social worker.

Stephen Heilmann studied medicine and sociology at the University of Copenhagen . From 1967 to 1974 he worked as a freelancer in the Copenhagen editorial team of Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa . He then became a director at Nuuk TV . From 1976 he was program secretary at the KNR. In 1983 he ran for parliamentary elections, but could not get enough votes to enter the Inatsisartut . However, he was appointed minister of culture, education and church in the Motzfeldt II cabinet. After only one year there were new elections and the whole thing was repeated: Heilmann did not get enough votes and later became minister of the same department in the Motzfeldt III cabinet . In 1987 he ran again unsuccessfully and took up his position as KNR program secretary again. In 1988 he became head of information at Nuna-Tek . From 1994 to 1995 he was sub-head of radio news at KNR, then editor-in-chief, before he became program secretary again for a year in 1997 and finally sub-head again.

In addition to his work as program secretary, he was a member of the Greenland Press Association from 1976 and its chairman from 1979 to 1981. From 1978 he was also a member of the Danish Association of Journalists. On December 27, 2007 he received the Nersornaat in silver. He died after a brief illness on June 1, 2019 at the age of 77.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Torben Lodberg : Grønlands Grønne Bog 1988 . Ed .: Grønlands hjemmestyres informationkontor. Copenhagen 1988, ISBN 87-982902-9-0 , pp. 28 f .
  2. ↑ a b Jan. René Westh: Ordenshistorisk Tidsskrift . Ed .: Ordenshistorisk Selskab . tape 36 , December 2010, ISSN  0904-5554 , p. 28 f .
  3. ↑ Stephen Heilmann er død at knr.gl
personal data
SURNAME Heilmann, Stephen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greenlandic politician (Siumut) and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 17, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuuk
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 2019